Pitch Dark Paperback Renata Adler

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Type
Novel
Publication Name
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
ISBN
9781590176146

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590176146
ISBN-13
9781590176146
eBay Product ID (ePID)
122063594

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pitch Dark
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, General, Literary, Biographical
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Author
Renata Adler
Book Series
Nyrb Classics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-044053
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed and magic. The first is Miss Adler's gift for language and observation . . . and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "These novels are records of a penetrating intelligence, a skeptical intelligence (but, thank God, not a reflexively skeptical intelligence). They are novels that persuade you of their claims to truth, and ones in which any literate young person in publishing in New York can see a bit of her or himself [...] It's great to have these novels back in print, at long last." --Meghan O'Rourke, The  New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog "Adler's novels concede the necessity of making fiction quicker, more terse, descriptively less elaborate than the traditional thing called a novel, not so much in deference to shrunken attention spans, but as the most plausible way of rendering the distracted, fragmentary quality of contemporary consciousness [...] They describe what it's like to be living now, during this span of time, in our particular country and our particular world. This is what the best novels have always done, and with any luck will continue to do." --Gary Indiana, Bookforum " Pitch Dark , like Speedboat , exudes a certain openness, a vulnerability, even. Adler dispenses with the defined paths of traditional narrative, along with expectations of order and sequence, and instead pieces together a collage of consciousness." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review "Imaginative, intelligent, and original." --Elizabeth Hardwick "If you simply allow [Adler's fragments] to settle in their own patterns, flashing light where they will, you'll find Pitch Dark a bright kaleidoscope of a book." --Anne Tyler, "Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed and magic. The first is Miss Adler's gift for language and observation . . . and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "These novels are records of a penetrating intelligence, a skeptical intelligence (but, thank God, not a reflexively skeptical intelligence). They are novels that persuade you of their claims to truth, and ones in which any literate young person in publishing in New York can see a bit of her or himself […] It's great to have these novels back in print, at long last." -Meghan O'Rourke, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog "Adler's novels concede the necessity of making fiction quicker, more terse, descriptively less elaborate than the traditional thing called a novel, not so much in deference to shrunken attention spans, but as the most plausible way of rendering the distracted, fragmentary quality of contemporary consciousness [...] They describe what it's like to be living now, during this span of time, in our particular country and our particular world. This is what the best novels have always done, and with any luck will continue to do." -Gary Indiana, Bookforum " Pitch Dark , like Speedboat , exudes a certain openness, a vulnerability, even. Adler dispenses with the defined paths of traditional narrative, along with expectations of order and sequence, and instead pieces together a collage of consciousness." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review "Imaginative, intelligent, and original." -Elizabeth Hardwick "If you simply allow [Adler's fragments] to settle in their own patterns, flashing light where they will, you'll find Pitch Dark a bright kaleidoscope of a book." -Anne Tyler, 'the description of the night drive across Ireland in the unlit dark is wonderfully done, because it is unclear both to the reader and the narrator whether her fears are real or a hysterical delusion', 'If you simply allow [Adler's fragments] to settle in their own patterns, flashing light where they will, you'll find Pitch Dark a bright kaleidoscope of a book.', "Renata Adler has succeeded with Kate in creating a character worth the trouble of writing and reading about, because of Kate's lively ideas, her intelligent opinions, her funny narrative style and her wonderful access to her own honesty. We feel for her plight, her broken heart, her love story." -Muriel Spark, The New York Times "Literary critics have hailed the novel for its emotional richness and structural complexity, and Pitch Dark has emerged as one of the year's most widely discussed books." -The New York Times "Given its tendency to substitute sophistication for emotion, knowledge for belief, much post-modern fiction has a certain dessicated quality, and it is Miss Adler's intermittent willingness to risk sentimentality that gives Pitch Dark a vitality and gut appeal missing in other 'anti-novels.' …. In the end, [the protagonist] Kate's personality and voice-which, one suspects, closely echoes Miss Adler's own-help Pitch Dark transcend the limits of its structure; they make the book not only engaging intellectually, but also emotionally compelling." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A moving, infuriating, tantalizing book." -Mark Feeney, Boston Globe " Pitch Dark , and even more effectively and entertainingly Speedboat , can properly be called exemplary of our sprawling secular culture-exemplary in both senses, serving as model, serving as deterrent." -Roger Shattuck, The New York Review of Books, 'Pitch Dark, like Speedboat, exudes a certain openness, a vulnerability, even. Adler dispenses with the defined paths of traditional narrative, along with expectations of order and sequence, and instead pieces together a collage of consciousness.', 'She is one of the most brilliant-that is, vivid, intense, astute, and penetrating-essayists in contemporary letters, and most contrarian: much of what you think she will passionately undo. And she is a novelist whose voice, even decades after her books were written, seems new and original, and, if you are a writer, one you wish were your own.', "Literary critics have hailed the novel for its emotional richness and structural complexity, and Pitch Dark has emerged as one of the year's most widely discussed books." The New York Times "Given its tendency to substitute sophistication for emotion, knowledge for belief, much post-modern fiction has a certain dessicated quality, and it is Miss Adler's intermittent willingness to risk sentimentality that gives Pitch Dark a vitality and gut appeal missing in other 'anti-novels.' ….In the end, [the protagonist] Kate's personality and voice - which, one suspects, closely echoes Miss Adler's own - help Pitch Dark transcend the limits of its structure; they make the book not only engaging intellectually, but also emotionally compelling." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "For ultimately "Pitch Dark" is a love story, a love story about the end of a romance, that does what any successful love story must do: the communication of love, loss and pain. It is a moving, infuriating, tantalizing book." Mark Feeney, Boston Globe " Pitch Dark , and even more effectively and entertainingly Speedboat , can properly be called exemplary of our sprawling secular culture-exemplary in both senses, serving as model, serving as deterrent." Roger Shattuck, The New York Review of Books, "Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed and magic. The first is Miss Adler's gift for language and observation . . . and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Imaginative, intelligent, and original." -Elizabeth Hardwick "If you simply allow [Adler's fragments] to settle in their own patterns, flashing light where they will, you'll find Pitch Dark a bright kaleidoscope of a book." -Anne Tyler, 'Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed and magic. The first is Miss Adler's gift for language and observation . . . and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions.', "Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed and magic. The first is Miss Adler's gift for language and observation . . . and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "These novels are records of a penetrating intelligence, a skeptical intelligence (but, thank God, not a reflexively skeptical intelligence). They are novels that persuade you of their claims to truth, and ones in which any literate young person in publishing in New York can see a bit of her or himself [...] It's great to have these novels back in print, at long last." --Meghan O'Rourke, The  New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog "Adler's novels concede the necessity of making fiction quicker, more terse, descriptively less elaborate than the traditional thing called a novel, not so much in deference to shrunken attention spans, but as the most plausible way of rendering the distracted, fragmentary quality of contemporary consciousness [...] They describe what it's like to be living now, during this span of time, in our particular country and our particular world. This is what the best novels have always done, and with any luck will continue to do." --Gary Indiana, Bookforum " Pitch Dark , like Speedboat , exudes a certain openness, a vulnerability, even. Adler dispenses with the defined paths of traditional narrative, along with expectations of order and sequence, and instead pieces together a collage of consciousness." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review "Renata Adler is brilliant, and her character Kate Ennis is lovable in her complete disinterest for making herself lovable. It's perfect and prescient, a tremendously influential book." --Chris Kraus, for Slate "Imaginative, intelligent, and original." --Elizabeth Hardwick "If you simply allow [Adler's fragments] to settle in their own patterns, flashing light where they will, you'll find Pitch Dark a bright kaleidoscope of a book." --Anne Tyler, 'These novels are records of a penetrating intelligence, a skeptical intelligence (but, thank God, not a reflexively skeptical intelligence). They are novels that persuade you of their claims to truth, and ones in which any literate young person in publishing in New York can see a bit of her or himself [...] It's great to have these novels back in print, at long last.', 'Adler's novels concede the necessity of making fiction quicker, more terse, descriptively less elaborate than the traditional thing called a novel, not so much in deference to shrunken attention spans, but as the most plausible way of rendering the distracted, fragmentary quality of contemporary consciousness [...] They describe what it's like to be living now, during this span of time, in our particular country and our particular world. This is what the best novels have always done, and with any luck will continue to do.', "Literary critics have hailed the novel for its emotional richness and structural complexity, and Pitch Dark has emerged as one of the year's most widely discussed books." -The New York Times "Given its tendency to substitute sophistication for emotion, knowledge for belief, much post-modern fiction has a certain dessicated quality, and it is Miss Adler's intermittent willingness to risk sentimentality that gives Pitch Dark a vitality and gut appeal missing in other 'anti-novels.' …. In the end, [the protagonist] Kate's personality and voice-which, one suspects, closely echoes Miss Adler's own-help Pitch Dark transcend the limits of its structure; they make the book not only engaging intellectually, but also emotionally compelling." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A moving, infuriating, tantalizing book." -Mark Feeney, Boston Globe " Pitch Dark , and even more effectively and entertainingly Speedboat , can properly be called exemplary of our sprawling secular culture-exemplary in both senses, serving as model, serving as deterrent." -Roger Shattuck, The New York Review of Books
Afterword by
Spark, Muriel
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
A strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers. "What's new. What else. What next. What's happened here." Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland. Composed in the style of Renata Adler's celebrated novel Speedboat and displaying her keen journalist's eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime, Pitch Dark is a bold and astonishing work of art.
LC Classification Number
PS3551

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